JUSThink

JUSThink project aims to improve the computational thinking skills of children, by exercising algorithmic reasoning with and through graphs, where graphs are posed as a way to represent, reason with and solve a problem. It targets at fostering children’s understanding of abstract graphs through a collaborative problem-solving task mediated by a humanoid robot (QTrobot).

Our goal is to build intelligent autonomous social robots that can promote children’s learning by assisting teachers through complementary activities; by equipping the robot with:

the ability to understand engaging behaviors of students that are conducive to learning and provide suggestions accordingly: lead by Jauwairia Nasir
mutual understanding skills so that the robot can “put itself in the child’s shoes”: lead by Utku Norman

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 765955 (the ANIMATAS Project).

Jauwairia Nasir, Barbara Bruno, & Pierre Dillenbourg. (2021). PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5576058
Nasir, Jauwairia, Norman, Utku, Bruno, Barbara, Chetouani, Mohamed, & Dillenbourg, Pierre. (2021). PE-HRI: A Multimodal Dataset for the study of Productive Engagement in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4633092
Norman, Utku, Dinkar, Tanvi, Nasir, Jauwairia, Bruno, Barbara, Clavel, Chloé, & Dillenbourg, Pierre. (2021). JUSThink Dialogue and Actions Corpus (v1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627104

Python Package for JUSThink Human-Robot Activities. (2022). GitHub. Retrieved from https://github.com/utku-norman/justhink_world/
ROS Wrappers for JUSThink Human-Robot Pedagogical Scenario. (2022). GitHub. Retrieved from https://github.com/utku-norman/justhink-ros
JUSThink Pre-experiment Analysis in the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 Paper. (2022). GitHub. Retrieved from https://github.com/utku-norman/justhink-preexp-analysis
Norman, Utku, Dinkar, Tanvi, Bruno, Barbara, & Clavel, Chloé. (2021). JUSThink Alignment Analysis in the Dialogue & Discourse Paper (v1.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4675070

An example scene from the JUSThink scenario (human-human version)

An example scene from the JUSThink scenario (human-robot version)

The robot as seen by the participant, that interacts remotely in the JUSThink scenario from a school (see our IEEE RO-MAN 2022 paper)

An example scene illustrating the robot’s behavior in the JUSThink scenario

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